When we think about professional learning, our first thoughts might go to all those twilights, courses and INSET days that we’ve attended over the years that didn’t quite work. We’ve all had to sit through hours of training that just hasn’t quite cut it for one reason or another. Ineffective CPL encompasses much of the following: […]
Read more "The Thinking behind our CPL"Teachers ask around 400 questions every day, which adds up to a staggering 70,000 a year. Most of these are low cognitive questions and it’s important to consider how to make these questions more effective in developing pupils’ learning. One way is to add variety to you questioning strategies. For example, randomly select pupils – […]
Read more "Questioning Ideas"It was a pleasure to host our first teach meet at the college this week. Titled INSPIRATION NOW, our presenters lived up to the billing and gave us all an inspiring look into their recent work. Sol Rogers kicked off proceedings with an engaging look at his work with Rewind. His personal story – from […]
Read more "INSPIRATION NOW: Our Teach Meet"Today we held our first primary secondary partnership, focused on transition between Key Stage 2 to 3. Colleagues from our feeder primary schools joined us for the afternoon. We selected a representative sample of students across Year 7 to help shape our conversations, evaluations and reflections. Our learning conversations were very much focused on how we […]
Read more "Reflecting on learning with primary partners"We had our first student-staff Learning Partnership meeting today. We spent 30 minutes with some of our wonderfully articulate students looking at what makes learning great here at KEVICC and how we can make it even more special. We asked each other a series of BIG QUESTIONS like ‘What do great teachers do?’ and ‘What […]
Read more "Our Learning Partnership"Slides Q&A is a new update on Google Slides that allows your audience to communicate with you as you present. Simply create a presentation in slides, go to presenter mode and activate Slides Q&A. A URL will be displayed to your audience, which will allow them to post comments, questions and general reflections to the room. Check […]
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